For Germany this was a time of great joy, nationalism, and spirit. ... I want to feel the same powerful, nameless urge that I used to feel when I turned to my books. ... After years of living a life where surviving the day is your only focus, Paul cannot even fathom a life in which one worries about the neighbors dog, or what is on sale at the market this week. ... Our knowledge of life is limited to death. ... These men became remnants of Europe's degenerate youth from that time period. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Orwell read many books as a child, but one that left a significant impression on him throughout his life was "Gulliver's Travels." ... Orwell did not follow the literary trends of the time. ... Orwell sort of challenged the political figures of the time by his writing. ... And he was able to frighten, even horrify his readers with his prophecy of the future of England and the rest of the world in a totalitarian life. ... Orwell didn't start getting the recognition and appreciation he deserved as an author until the last years of his life and after his death....

• Word Count: 999
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Critical Analysis of Ernest Hemingway "He [Ernest Hemingway] wrote only about things he had experienced, mostly outdoors, as a doctor's son in northern Michigan and as a self-possessed young tramp in Europe" (Time Magazine). ... Ernest Hemingway wrote from personal experiences, the main characters of The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell To Arms, and For Whom The Bell Tolls can all be closely compared to the life Ernest Hemingway lead. Although I haven't read any about a doctor's son in Michigan, all three books I have read are about young American men in Europe. ... Ernest Hemi...

• Word Count: 503
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• Grade Level: High School

This poem is well known and has made it into many high school and college text books. ... How often in life do we refer to some mistake we have made as capable of bringing about the end of the world. ... At the same time there was a new age fighting for its life. ... They went to underground clubs, drank their liquor, smoked cigarettes and dressed in beaded outfits adorned with feathers all in a celebration of life, fire, passion and desire. ... Life is change and when change ceases, we are only left with the coldness of death. ...

• Word Count: 729
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

As a boy he wasn't interested in schoolwork and spent most of his free time riding his horse and hunting birds with a shotgun. ... This left him semi- crippled for the rest of his life. ... Billy had a tough life at school, he was required to wear a suit and tie to school, he had a slight lisp, and he preferred swimming and riding over hockey, and lacrosse. ... He was forced to take time off to recuperate. ... His son William Aurthor Bishop enlisted in the RAF as a fighter pilot and later wrote books about his father. ...

• Word Count: 826
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• Grade Level: High School

IN spite of his good grades Woodrow had to leave collage after one year because of illness, a problem Woodrow had most of his life. ... He became ill again and had to leave school for the second time. ... At the time of the move Woodrow's wife had had two daughters and was expecting a third. After teaching for a while Woodrow moved back to New Jersey and had published nine books by that time. ...

• Word Count: 706
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The outrageous number of civilian casualties and mass destruction of cities and towns will forever be a landmark in the history books. Despite mass unemployment due to the Great Depression, severe persecution and genocide in Adolph Hitler's concentration camps, and the oblivious atomic bomb that wreaked havoc all over Hiroshima, World War II can still be considered an evolutionary time for women. ... The women of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) risked life and limb by penetrating enemy territory. ... In a time of extreme male dominance, it appeared that the women's contributi...

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They go to training for a few weeks and live life on the front they soon realize it is not all it was supposed to be. ... Life on the western front was not all they thought it would be. ... Unlike most war books this one tells the real story of war and how brutal it actually is. ... The boots show the insignificance of a lost life. ... The time that the report was issued is the same time that Paul was killed. ...

• Word Count: 1206
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

AS compassion cam over him, he could no longer face the violence that had taken over his life. ... In fact, most young people had never experienced a war, but could still somehow relate with the help of extensive history books and novels. Until a recent tragedy in America, children may have never experienced what a time of war felt like. ...

• Word Count: 883
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• Grade Level: High School

He looks athletic, but unlike the other students, he has no time to play sports, "being too busy with politics, arrangements, and offices" (79). ... Phineas lives a life of freedom and spontaneity at Devon that helps to reveal his true innocence. ... He is a slave to his books and works hard to get good grades. Finny takes it upon himself to make Gene more laid-back and free to enjoy life. ... It is symbolic that after Finny breaks his leg the first time, Gene "becomes" Finny by putting on his pink shirt - Phineas" trademark of his rebellious character. ...

• Word Count: 1132
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Composition 1023 "Ernest Hemingway: How His Novels Tell of His Real Life Story" Ernest Hemingway, who was born in Oak Park, Illinois in 1899, was legend in his own time, and is now a legend in our time. ... Hemingway was fascinated with war, and it graced his works many a time. ... The next year, and on July 2, 1961, Hemingway took his own life, something which his father had also decided to do some time before (Quote of the Day). The boisterous Hemingway and his fascination with war, both in life and in writing, along with his "sparse writing style" (Schafer 1) made him extraordinary among...

• Word Count: 1401
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

He looked into people's life and revealed the truth of life. ... After the grandiose order "for the protection of the German people", the printing, sale, and distribution of Zweig's books were marked criminal and ware burned. ... He illustrated more about the tense relationship between countries, but less about his individual life. He wrote his own life only when it was related to the portrait of an age. ... He contributed his whole life to promoting the unification of Europe and maintained to be a pacifist. ...

• Word Count: 1321
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• Grade Level: High School

Know as the Progressive era, Bristow attempts to deal with the complexities of this time, a time in which morale and decency prevailed. ... The CTCA was formed in April 1917 to supervise the cultural life of the military service men. ... As a result, men from all walk of life where thrown together as they moved from state to state, country to country, while being trained. The image that many civilians had about camp life, according to Bristow, was that of military camps being a place corrupted and diluted by drinking, prostitution, profanity, and fighting. ... The Commission provided the m...

• Word Count: 1179
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Lee did a good job of evenly dividing the time in the book to the varying difference in York's life. ... Political, economic, social, and cultural were all involved in Alvin's life. Also, all of these played a major influential part in the path his life took. ... In class you mentioned him and how his life went. ... Books and movies are notorious for sensationalizing of the actually truth to get more interest involved in their works. ...

• Word Count: 1210
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

He brings the battle for France to life not only on the fields where most of the blood was shed, but also in the streets, homes and hearts of the people who lived through a time when a chaotic life was nothing out of the ordinary. ... The irony is all to present, the line was a great way of preventing a German invasion yes, but at the same time it was barrier for the French who could have made significance advances into enemy territory. ... I found myself many times having to think about a sentence where a French phrase was used for long periods of time. ... What I had a hard...

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• Grade Level: High School

The world was going through several important changes by the time "If" was written. ... Technology changed along with the economy and helped influence daily life. ... Politics changed drastically during the early 20th century and contributed to the atmosphere of the time. ... Scientists may have agreed with Kipling's poem titled "The Appeal" which says: "If I have given you delight by aught that I have done, Let me lie quiet in that night which shall be yours anon: and for the little, little, span the dead are borne in mind, seek not to question other than the books I leave behind." ...

• Word Count: 954
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• Grade Level: High School

What makes his work so effective is that he appears to have shared with millions of other Americans a particular set of assumptions about life in the United States, and he has blended his skills as an illustrator with a wealth of careful observation to bring the consequences of these assumptions to life. ... Unlike other painters of his time who used postimpressionism and modernism; Rockwell created images of Americans and is said by some to be the only true American realist (Schorr). ... In the later years of his life, Norman Rockwell started to take a stand against bigotry by drawing picture...

• Word Count: 1928
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

During that time, Nicholas, as well as responsible men at all levels of the bureaucracy, accepted as reality the illusion that his father had bequeathed him a well-ordered realm (Ibid). ... He was also the author for the several books on Russia, most of them highly regarded. The above books were issued about 30 years apart. ... In private life, he was undemanding but had contradictions in his character, tending to weakness and inconsistency. ... At the same time, organized political opposition to tsarism was developing. ...

• Word Count: 1939
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

It is believable because India was a British colony at the time. ... The movie further explores the life of a simple Indian man and documents the serious poverty of his people. ... In this time period England was the dominant world power and became that way through its collection of colonies. ... However it does not cease until he is near death, and the people do so to save his life. ... The fact that this film won 9 Academy Awards instantly puts it in the history books. ...

• Word Count: 1554
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• Grade Level: High School

One of them being "Kitty Foyle," a story about a white-collar girl and her troubled love life. ... It is nauseating and odious knowing that at a young age this boy had his life taken from him while fighting for the freedom that he will never be able to enjoy. ... As mentioned in the introduction, today people have a wonderful time on this day. ... Being in this situation, Joe learned to appreciate things that he had in life more than others may. ... I believe that these books are very closely related in that they both tell a true war story, although it wasn't directly about war....

• Word Count: 1558
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• Grade Level: High School

"We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world: and we had to shoot it to pieces. ... Paul said, "I well remember how embarrassed we were as recruits in barracks when we had to use the general latrine."3 When Paul was sent to the front, along with his other friends, new friendships where made that would last throughout time. ... Albert Kropp was one of the students that enlisted at the same time as Paul. ... In school he was an extremely bright student and during the war he still carried around his books. ... People during this time where desperate and all that was n...

• Word Count: 1542
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• Grade Level: High School

Adolf Hitler's originally goal for life was to be a successful artist. After several family problems and his rejection from art school he decided to take a different path in life. ... Hitler felt that this was the perfect time for him and his party to step in and take over. ... While Hitler was in jail he used his time wisely. ... In May of 1933, Hitler demanded that all books were to be burned. ...

• Word Count: 2246
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• Grade Level: High School

Prior to this time, women were considered inferior and subservient to men. ... People of the time referred to World War I as the "Great War", as it was indeed greater in death and destruction than any war known to that time. ... Many people believed that Mark lived a "charmed life". ... The only form of mass communication at this time were newspapers, telephone, books, posters and mail. ... However, Hickam's turned to alcohol to escape his problems and endured his life now without "pride or grace or spirit" (Pg. 67). ...

• Word Count: 2089
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• Grade Level: High School

The life savings of the middle classes and the working classes were wiped out. ... In despair the German people turned to the numerous and varied political parties that come forth during this time of social upheaval who said they had answers to the complicated problems and questions the people had about the economic depression. ... The Reichstag at this time consisted of a total of 491 seats . ... The burning of the Reichstag was a serious insult to the people Hitler used this common protest to get Paul Hindenburg (the ineffective and senile president of Germany at the time) to sign a ...

• Word Count: 2583
• Approx Pages: 10
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• Grade Level: High School

The Armenian Holocaust was the first genocide of the twentieth century; it decimated the Armenian Christians inhabiting Turkey and accounted for almost ten percent of Turkey's population at that time. History books choose to focus on the massacres that took place from 1915 through 1917 during the Great War; what is often overlooked is the suffering the Armenians endured forty years prior to the war. ... The first reason is attributed to the severe religious and cultural separation between the two, summarized by Stephan Astourian as "societal forces supporting human life versus soci...

• Word Count: 1964
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate